Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Chuck

Techshura. Chuck is a senior advanced concept engineer at Specialized, where he's been involved

in countless projects from mountain to road and from bikes to components. Prior to joining

Specialized in 2011, Chuck spent 28 years at Easton Bell, where he was the director of R&D.

Thanks for joining me, Chuck.

Good morning, Jeff.

So tell us a bit about your cycling background.

Obviously, it's a long background, but take us kind of to the beginning.

How did you end up getting into the industry?

Okay. It would start with my up getting into the industry? Okay.

It would start with my grandfather owning a bicycle shop.

And my parents, like pretty much parents in those days, making ends meet was pretty tricky.

And I was basically babysat in my grandfather's bike shop.

So they set up a playpen in there when I was like a toddler.

And so I've been like around this stuff forever.

And my grandfather was a wonderful teacher, wonderful man.

And he didn't have a son.

So I was his son, his pride and joy.

And he just taught me so much.

And at an early age, five, six years old, I was assembling bikes and working on things in the shop.

And I just absolutely loved it.

And I worked for him, with him, you know, until my teenage years until I left

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